A message for Beach; "Your snappy black uniform has been cleaned and pressed and ready for you to pick up!" You are totally irrational about The Greens. The Greens like anyone else has the right to show respect for a truly great Australian. All the nonsense about 'Wolves in Sheep's Clothing', the Internationalist Socialist 'Progressives, dark, hidden sponsors and influences behind the Greens. Its all a figment of your wild imagination.

I strongly object to these groups claiming exclusive use of perfectly good English words.

Gay was a good descriptive word, until homosexuals claimed it to try to improve their image. They did not like poofter, which told us everything.

Now we have our lefties trying to claim another perfectly good word, "progressive". Another attempt to improve their image, when "long haired radical ratbag", or "watermelon" when they pretended a shade of green were perfectly adequate.

Then we have the overweight. They don't like "Fat", & want to be "obese". I can't imagine why. To me, as I age, & become a little heavier I'd much rather be described as fat than obese. Being obese sounds horrible to me.

Come on fellers, invent your own words, & stop trying to steel ours.

LOL, Foxy, you wouldn't expect any different from your cherry-picked source, now would you?

http://robsimms50shadesofgreen.com/

Maybe both you and Paul1405 might stop avoiding the subject and comment on the lack of ethics and sheer gall of the Greens using Gough Whitlam after death?

Not something the Greens might have tried while he was still alive and in command of his faculties though.

Dear OTB,

Actually I don't "cherry-pick," my articles.
Unlike you -
I choose them for their content and information.

BTW - The Greens were not formed as a Party until
1992 - long after Gough Whitlam's exist from
politics.

What the Greens are trying to apprently do today is
follow many of
Whitlam's legacies which by the way - belong to all Australians.
And that's something of which we can all be proud.

Foxy, thanks for that article from 'The Drum'. My two greatest political hero's in Australia are Gough Whitlam and Jack Lang, both Labor, Lang was expelled from the party for many years but never gave up his Labour principles. Naturally if I had to say three Bob Brown would come into my calculations as well. P/s I also have a very high opinion of John Gorton from The Liberal Party.
Beach who in Australian politics do you admire? Now let me see...

Dear Paul,

One can't help but admire Gough Whitlam - his
achievements during such a short time and the
legacy he's left us is really quite remarkable.
So many Australians benefited from these
achievements. And still are to this day.

Thanks for this discussion. It's been quite revealing
in more ways than one.

See you on another thread.